In an exclusive interview with the Times of Israel on the sideline of the U.S.-led economic conference in Manama, Bahrain’s foreign minister said Wednesday that Israel has a right to exist and that the Gulf emirate wants to make peace with the Jewish State. Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa described...

The United States unveiled the economic aspects of its Middle East plan – a $50 billion economic formula for Israeli-Palestinian peace – in Bahrain on Tuesday as part of an investment-driven strategy toward economic progress for the Palestinians, which the U.S. described as a precondition to end the decades-long conflict....

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday imposing new “hard-hitting” sanctions on Iran, affecting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s financial resources, as well as targeting senior military officials and the country’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. The goal of the new sanctions is to put pressure...

In extraordinary comments on Friday, a top-ranking Saudi diplomat said that “the blood conflict” between Israel and the Arab world “had lasted too long” and that the time for normalization has come. “Us Saudis and all Gulf States plus Egypt and Jordan realize that the age of going to war...

The United States released Saturday the economic portion of its long-awaited Middle East peace plan – a 40-page document detailing a $50 billion, 10-year investment plan for the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon ahead of the U.S.-sponsored economic conference in Bahrain on June 25-26. The White House said on...

The head of the United Nations food agency launched a blistering attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen on Monday, accusing the Iranian-aligned terrorist group of diverting critical food deliveries from the country’s starving population. At a time 20 million Yemenis are food-insecure and on the brink of famine, the executive...